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Re: Was the Iraq War "Worth it"

Originally Posted by TheNextEra

NO, another example of why the U.S. shouldn't be in the business of nation building.

There's nothing wrong with nation building, as long as it's done by USAID or other such agencies. The US military is trained to kill people and blow stuff up. They were never meant to be school teachers for other countries leaders, community organizers, or diplomats. Once we started trying to both, with the military, it was obvious that one of the two missions would suffer; either the winning of wars, or the building of nations.

Re: Was the Iraq War "Worth it"

NO, another example of why the U.S. shouldn't be in the business of nation building.

I agree with Beaudreaux. I know what you mean, but I think there's a different way to say it. Better might be, "Do you think our strategy in Iraq ended in a cluster****?" Yeah, I like that.

In Obama's hurry to close it down, he left this country in a mess. We have troops stationed all over the damned world on a permanent basis. Why not here? This country's stability is most certainly of great importance to the United States.